Cold
War
(2018)

1
hrs 28 mins,
Certificate 15

Back
in 2015 we showed Pawel Pawlikowski‘s Oscar winning Ida. Cold War is his
latest fabulous
offering, again shot
in silvery
black-and-white. Set
in the 1950s and 60s
this film is a
passionate love
story between two
people of different
backgrounds and
temperaments. They
are fatefully
mismatched and yet
condemned to each
other.The
main characters,
Wiktor, a pianist,
and Zula , a young
singer, travel
restlessly across
Europe during those
decades of unrest. They
first
meet in 1949, when
Zula joins
Wiktor’s choral
troupe. Their
performances cause
a stir in Warsaw,
attracting the
attention of the
authorities and
before they know
it, they are
instructed to move
away from classic
folk and instead
sing ballads about
agricultural
reform beneath
posters of Stalin.
It becomes
clear that they need
to get out of the
East. Zula is on her
way to becoming a
star and throws
herself forward into
solo engagements,
after she and Wiktor
have separately
found ways to slip
the Iron Curtain.
They are in love,
though live just as
often apart as
together, in
different cities for
years at a time, or
get involved
haphazardly with
other people. Moving
between Poland,
Berlin, Yugoslavia
and Paris, this film
depicts an
impossible love
story in impossible
times. In
Polish with English
subtitles.

Remember:

Tickets £5 on
the door.
Doors open at
7pm - come
early to avoid
disappointment.

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drink, we'll
supply you
with a
glass...

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